2022
22–24 July
The players:
Stephen Emmerson (piano), Therese Milanovic (piano), Timothy Young (piano), Sophie Rowell (violin), Rachel Smith (violin), Michele Walsh (violin), Caroline Henbest (viola), Elizabeth Woolnough (viola), Louise King (cello), Eric de Wit (cello), Marian Heckenberg (double bass), Michael Pisani (oboe and cor anglais), Irit Silver (clarinet), Megan Washington (piano and vocals)
Concert 1
Friday 22 July, 7.30 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
Hommage à Nadia Boulanger
Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps, for piano trio
Gabriel Fauré: Adagio non troppo from Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor, Opus 45
Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for string quartet
Nadia Boulanger: Three pieces for cello and piano
Jean Françaix: Quartet for cor anglais, violin, viola and cello
Igor Stravinsky: Suite from L’Histoire du soldat for clarinet, violin and piano
Astor Piazzolla: Four, for Tango
(Therese Milanovic, Sophie Rowell, Michele Walsh, Caroline Henbest, Elizabeth Woolnough, Louise King, Eric de Wit, Rachel Smith, Stephen Emmerson, Caroline Henbest, Irit Silver, Michael Pisani, Timothy Young)
Concert 2
Saturday 23 July, 8 am, Point Lookout Community Hall
Hommage à Bach
György Kurtág: Sonatina from the Actus Tragicus cantata, BWV 106, arranged for piano four hands
György Kurtág: Hommage à J. S. B. for string trio
W. A. Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in F major, KV 404a, III, for string trio
Ignaz Moscheles: No. 10 from Melodisch-kontrapunktische Studien: Con moto agitato, after Prelude in C minor, WTC I, BWV 847, for cello and piano
Ian Munro: Aus Tiefer Not for clarinet, cello and piano
Robert Schumann: Prelude from Cello Suite no. 3 in C major, BWV 1009, for cello and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fugue no. 22 in B-flat minor, BWV 867, arranged for string quintet, Hess 38
W. A. Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, KV 546, for string quintet
Brett Dean: Prélude and Chorale: Hommage à Bach for solo piano
(Stephen Emmerson, Therese Milanovic, Timothy Young, Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith, Michele Walsh, Caroline Henbest, Elizabeth Woolnough, Louise King, Eric de Wit, Marian Heckenberg, Irit Silver)
Concert 3
Saturday 23 July, 1.30 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
Trapeze
Sergei Prokofiev: Quintet in G minor, Opus 39
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Opus 57
(Sophie Rowell, Michele Walsh, Caroline Henbest, Elizabeth Woolnough, Michael Pisani, Irit Silver, Louise King, Stephen Emmerson, Marian Heckenberg)
Concert 4
Saturday 23 July, 7.00 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
Megan Washington
(Megan Washington, piano and vocals, and the Festival Strings)
Concert 5
Sunday 24 July, 10 am, Point Lookout Community Hall
Song of the Birds
Frank Martin: Pavane ‘Couleur du temps’, for string quintet
Frank Bridge: Lament for Two Violas, H 101b
Tōru Takemitsu: A Bird Came Down the Walk, for viola and piano
Olivier Messiaen: ‘Abîme des oiseaux’ from Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Grażyna Bacewicz: Suite for Two Violins
Darius Milhaud: Elégie for cello and piano, Opus 251
Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds, for cello and piano
Arvo Pärt: Da pacem Domine, for string quartet
(Stephen Emmerson, Therese Milanovic, Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith, Michele Walsh, Caroline Henbest, Elizabeth Woolnough, Louise King, Eric de Wit, Marian Heckenberg, Irit Silver)
Concert 6
Sunday 24 July, 2 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
Paris 1920s
Igor Stravinsky: Suite d’après des thèmes, fragments et morceaux de Giambatista Pergolesi, for violin and piano
Camille Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D major, Opus 166
Arthur Honegger: Choral à 3 voix, for cor anglais, violin and cello, from Trois contrepoints, H 43
Maurice Ravel: ‘Blues’, from Violin Sonata in G major
Darius Milhaud: La création du monde, Opus 81b, for piano quintet
(Therese Milanovic, Sophie Rowell, Michele Walsh, Caroline Henbest, Elizabeth Woolnough, Louise King, Eric de Wit, Rachel Smith, Stephen Emmerson, Caroline Henbest, Michael Pisani, Timothy Young)